Why I Quit MyFitnessPal After 10 Years (And What I Use Instead)

I was a MyFitnessPal loyalist. Ten years of food logs, thousands of meals tracked, a Premium subscription auto-renewed without question every single year. MFP was muscle memory — I opened it before I even sat down to eat.

Then sometime in late 2025, something shifted. The app that once felt like a trusted tool started feeling like a chore. The interface was clunky, core features kept disappearing behind the paywall, and every update seemed to make things worse, not better.

I wasn't alone. Reddit's r/MyFitnessPal is a rolling feed of frustrated long-term users asking the same question: "Is there anything actually better?"

After testing every major alternative, here's my honest answer.

What Went Wrong With MyFitnessPal

1. The UI keeps breaking

MFP's 2025 redesign was genuinely disorienting. Features that were two taps away are now buried. The navigation changed, the dashboard changed, and loyal users who'd been logging for years suddenly couldn't find basic functions. The r/MyFitnessPal subreddit in mid-2025 was flooded with posts like "Give us back the old layout" — with thousands of upvotes.

2. Everything good is now behind the paywall

The free tier has been gutted. Macro goals, meal planning, nutrient analysis — all Premium now. At $19.99/month (or $79.99/year), you're paying more than most streaming services for what is essentially a food diary. Meanwhile, newer apps include all of this for free or at a fraction of the cost.

3. No coaching. Zero intelligence.

This is the big one. MFP has had 15+ years and hundreds of millions of users — and it still just records what you eat. It doesn't tell you what to eat next. It doesn't notice you've been low on protein for three days. It doesn't adapt to your goals as they change. It watches. It doesn't help.

4. Integrations keep breaking

Syncing with Samsung Health, Apple Health, Garmin, and Fitbit is inconsistent at best. One of the top complaints in 2024 was steps and workouts randomly stopping sync without warning. For an app charging premium prices, this is unacceptable.

What About Cal AI?

Cal AI went viral for good reason — snap a photo of your meal and get an instant calorie estimate. It's genuinely impressive the first time you use it.

But the cracks show fast:

• Accuracy is inconsistent — mixed dishes, sauces, and anything with hidden ingredients get wildly wrong estimates
• No coaching — same problem as MFP. It scans. It logs. It does nothing else.
• Billing complaints — Reddit is full of users who cancelled their trial and got charged anyway
• No workout tracking — it's purely a calorie scanner, nothing more
• No memory — it has no idea who you are or what you're trying to achieve

Cal AI is a neat trick. It's not a fitness app.

What Actually Works: FORGE FIT

FORGE FIT takes a completely different approach. Instead of asking "what did you eat?" it asks "how can I help you?"

The AI coach inside FORGE actually learns your patterns. It remembers you skipped training yesterday. It notices when your protein has been low. It adjusts its recommendations based on your progress — not just your data entry.

It combines calorie and macro tracking, workout logging, barcode scanning (with Australian database), AI coaching, and life check-ins into one app. And unlike MFP, the features that matter are actually free.

The Bottom Line

MFP had a decade to build something truly intelligent. Instead, it became a legacy app trapped in its own complexity — nickel-and-diming loyal users while newer, smarter tools passed it by.

If you've been on MFP for years and feeling frustrated, you're not imagining it. The app got worse. And there are better options now.

The one that actually moved the needle for me was FORGE FIT — because it doesn't just track my data, it uses it. There's a real difference between an app that watches you and one that helps you.